politalX Politics Store - Constitutional Law (Casebook Series)
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Manufacturer: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 342.73
EAN: 9780735549463
ISBN: 073554946X
Label: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
Manufacturer: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1574
Publication Date: 2005-05-13
Publisher: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
Studio: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
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Summary: Best Law Book Around
Comment: This book is the best law book that I have ever read. The cases are interesting and well abbreviated. The best part though - the notes before and after the cases. Chemerinsky does a great job of explaining what is going on. Instead of giving you ambiguous answers and rhetorical questions, this book actually explains the law.
I will buy the next edition when it comes out, even though I will be out of law school. That's how good it is. This book should be standard at all schools, and should be the model for legal education text.
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Summary: A Compelling Interest
Comment: Mr. Chemrinsky is surely one of the leaders in the education of constitutional law, and his casebook is well tailored for the beginning law school student. Instead of trying to impress other lawyers, or simply reprinting case text as-is with no synthesis (a criminally unpunished activity by many casebook creators), Chemrinsky states early on that this book is structured for the student. There is certainly plenty of supplemental information here, with Chemerinsky doing a fine job of synthesizing and categorizing the myriad dimensions of constitutional law, and usefully facilitating the student's learning experience through more than just reprinted cases. The only real problem with this book is its sheer size, which cannot be blamed only on the nature of the subject matter. In my three-credit, one-semester course we only got through about a quarter of the book. When creating a casebook that truly presents constitutional law for the student, which is Chemerinsky's goal, the editor should figure out a way to emphasize the bare fundamentals that should be mastered by the average student who has a limited amount of time available for doing so. [~doomsdayer520~]
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Summary: I expected more...
Comment: Maybe it is because the Chemerinsky is hyped so much in legal circles regarding Constitutional Law, but I was expecting a lot more out of this book than it seemingly offers...the cases are HEAVILY edited, so much so that either my professor will supplement the reading or I will just end up turning to Westlaw or Lexis to read (or at least skim) vast portions of the opinion that have been edited out...
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Summary: Best 1L Textbook
Comment: This was the best 1L textbook that I had. I thought it was well edited and the comments were concise, on point, and helpful. The comments were written more as mini essays (which I prefer) instead of bullet points. Also, there are no problems, which I rarely find helpful and is just something for lazy professors to use to make you waste your valuable time.
Note: this book is huge, there is no way a one semester class could even come close to covering all the information in this book.
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